narcoanalysis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of psychotherapy in which the patient is administered drugs in order to attain a sleeplike state.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He had a set of chains in his room that he said he used with his psychoanalyst; they were experimenting with narcoanalysis and found that Old Bull had seven separate personalities, each growing worse and worse on the way down, till finally he was a raving idiot and had to be restrained with chains."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ναρκόω (narkóō) English narco- Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis)bor. Medieval Latin analysisbor. English analysis English narcoanalysis From narco- + analysis.